I love non contempary country music

As long as we are sharing music genre loves, I love psychedelic & progressive rock music. Psychedelic rock & Neo-psychedelic rock expands my mind and provokes thought.
Progressive rock guides me on fantastic journeys of imagination with its difficult compositions and notes of discovery.
Examples of psychedelic rock: Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Electric Prunes, Chocolate Watchband, Ultimate Spinach, Pink Floyd, Bubble Puppy, July, The Beatles....
Progressive Rock: Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Focus, Rush, King Crimson, Camel, Kansas, The Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa Uriah Heep,.....
 
Bretrick said:
I think I first heard the song - I Donā€™t Wanna Play House in about 1976.
Staying with my best friend at the seaside town of Strahan on the West Coast of Tasmania.
Even at that time, my love of country music was growing stronger every year.
Though I am definitely not into contemporary Country Music.
Once all my favourites from the 60s, 70s and 80s have gone then I will be replaying their great tunes until I too am gone.
In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesnā€™t want to play ā€œHouseā€ - (a traditional childrenā€™s game. It is a form of make-believe where players take on the roles of a family. Common roles Including parents, children, a newborn, and pets) since, after observing her parentsā€™ troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.
I Donā€™t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette 1967
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Jim Reeves has always been my favorite. Voice as smooth as satin.
Favorite song of his is Adios Amego
 
Packerjohn said:
I was born, raised and I'm gonna die listening to country music. Some of you mentioned how bad modern country music is.

My personal opinion why modern country music "sucks" is:
1. It all sounds alike. The singers go into recording studios where the same band plays day after day to different "artists." In the "good ole' days", every singer had his own band. Hank Williams had the Drifting Cowboys, Johnny Cash had the Tennessee Two, Jim Reeves had his Blue Boys, Hank Snow had the Rainbow Ranch Boys and Hank Thompson had the Brazo Valley Boys.
2. Way too much twang in the voice. When Marty Robbins, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or Stonewall Jackson sang you could easily understand every word. No way today.
3. The recording studios have the band turned up so loud that often you cannot clearly heard nor understand the singer. Maybe it's just as well.
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I totally agree. And just like Dillion going electric, electric killed country. Acoustic is better it supports, not dominates the lyrics.
 
Packerjohn said:
I was born, raised and I'm gonna die listening to country music. Some of you mentioned how bad modern country music is.

My personal opinion why modern country music "sucks" is:
1. It all sounds alike. The singers go into recording studios where the same band plays day after day to different "artists." In the "good ole' days", every singer had his own band. Hank Williams had the Drifting Cowboys, Johnny Cash had the Tennessee Two, Jim Reeves had his Blue Boys, Hank Snow had the Rainbow Ranch Boys and Hank Thompson had the Brazo Valley Boys.
2. Way too much twang in the voice. When Marty Robbins, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or Stonewall Jackson sang you could easily understand every word. No way today.
3. The recording studios have the band turned up so loud that often you cannot clearly heard nor understand the singer. Maybe it's just as well.
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All of that is true but it's the same for pop music too. Everyone is trying to copy whoever is most popular at the time.
 
Ever heard the song ...... Murder on Music Row, by George Straight and Allen Jackson ? The lyrics say it all .......imo
 

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